Archive - Software Design: Tidy First?

Additional Testing After Refactoring

Should you write more tests after refactoring?

Jan 20 •

Meeting Prevents Exceeding

Originally published March 2017

Jan 17 •

Kent Beck: Illuminating the Pattern Language of Modern Life

My art has become an increasingly-important part of my life.

Jan 14 •

The Sunk Cost Fallacy Fallacy

Jan 10 •

Almost no bugs in The Forest?

Jan 3 •

Managing Expand Projects

So if “the exploration that cannot fail is not an exploration”, then how are you supposed to manage high-risk, high-consequence projects?

Jan 2 •

December 2024

Complain & Propose

Republished from July 2014.

Dec 27, 2024 •

Far Behind The Eyes

Hypervigilance adapts one to living in an abusive situation.

Dec 21, 2024 •

Different Bests in Different Contexts

Another take on 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract

Dec 20, 2024 •

The Explore That Cannot Fail Is Not An Explore

We’ve mentioned that one of the fruits of working in The Forest is that you’ll see lots of experiments.

Dec 17, 2024 •

Intentions & Actions

The yawning chasm

Dec 16, 2024 •

“Best” Practices Ain’t...

First published April 17, 2017

Dec 13, 2024 •

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